This is the first time I set up Liferay on a Centos machine, and I keep running into a weird problem.

This is the guide I followed: http://www.liferay.com/community/wiki/-/wiki/Main/Quick+Installation+Instructions

I have the latest Java installed , and have the liferay with tomcat bundle downloaded, copied to /usr , unzipped it there and did something very similar to this: Linux/OSX: cd /{directory}/liferay-{version}/tomcat-{version}/bin ./startup.sh }}}

Looks like it's starting up, execute as root;# netstat -antand see if you can figure out what address the port is bound to, may only be listening on localhost. Check the file /usr/liferay-portal-6.0.6/tomcat-6.0.29/logs/catalina.out, will usually complain loudly in there what the exact problem is.